America’s Greatest Artist Depicts Obama Burning The Constitution

Our old pal Jon McNaughton, the hero behind such paintings as 2009’s One Nation Under God (The Jesusy-Constitution one) (Don’t forget the Blood Remix!) and 2010’s The Forgotten Man has produced this new masterwork, One Nation Under Socialism, which you can purchase for a mere $345. What does it mean, this work of paintery in which Barack Obama is just stone cold lightin’ the Constitution on fire? Jon McNaughton will answer all of your questions.

About the author

Jim Newell is Wonkette's beloved Capitol Hill Typing Demon. He joined Wonkette.com in 2007, left for some other dumb job in 2010, and proudly returned in 2012 as our "Senior Editor at Large." He lives in Washington and also writes for things such as The Guardian, the Manchester paper of liberals.

I know, right? His POV might be excused if his work had any power. Instead, it's just mediocre dreck.

dubyatf

You're not kidding. That doesn't even look like Obama. I thought it was Robert Downey, Jr.
Apparently this McNotanartist character got his artist credentials from the back of a comic book.
Maybe we can all chip in our daily liquor allowance and commission him to paint a picture of George W. using the Constitution to wipe his ass. And yes, by "ass" I mean Dick Cheney.

dubyatf

I'm so ashamed of myself for posting that last sentence.
Allow me to correct myself: Dick Cheney is not an ass. He's what Bush wiped.
Fixed.

tessiee

Well, Dick Cheney uses George W. to wipe *his* ass, so it all works out.

Blueb4sunrise

….chip in our daily liquor allowance …

uhhhhhhhh, no.

dubyatf

I knew I was treading on sacred ground.
How about if we chip in the kids' college savings? Oh, wait. Same thing.

Blueb4sunrise

Wait, I know there's Wonketteers who don't drink, they probably have monies.

Guppy

We spend it on hookers instead.

Or so I've heard.

flamingpdog

And coke, no pepsi.

Toomush_Infer

Nope, sorry….and I barfed on my last hooker (in lieu of payment), so I'm kind of down to the streetwalker type, the type Livingrock or whatever his name was, warned us about…

Dashboard_Jesus

thanks, I just posted that to the moron's FB page (curious to see how long it stays on?)

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

Why would he even *have* a FB page? It's just another way to let all the hatey-hatey people c'mon over and hate all over his wall.

Fare la Volpe

His haters are his motivators.

Crystal meth, also.

neiltheblaze

Exactly. Look what it did for Van Gogh. Wait – that was syphilis.

Toomush_Infer

I think you mean Gaugain, leaving his mark on Tahiti….

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

Jon McNaughton, report to your local Post Office or Amtrak station for immediate boarding on the next FEMA Death Train.

BTWBFDIMHO

FEMA = Find Every Mormon Around.

Man0nTheStreet

- Mor(m)on –

user-of-owls

What a slut.

Extemporanus

Bonsoar, Poupe-y-tête.

Barb

Didn't John Wayne Gacy paint too? I'm just sayin'.

johnnymeatworth

Hitler too, don't forget….

Chichikovovich

He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon. Two coats!

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Goddamn it!

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

Something tells me increased funding for the arts might be a good investment. Imagine if that Little Corporal had found a job, any kind of job, maybe hand-lettering sentimental dreck. How much better the world would have been!

Negropolis

To think, a shitty postcard artist from Austria (Redneck Germany) ends up taking over Europe. You couldn't write shit like this.

Dirt_Dog

I think you just missed a chance to say "you know who else wanted to be a painter?" and have the answer actually be the short-mustached one for real.

nounverb911

Charlie Chaplin?

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Well fuck me!!

AlterNewt

I feel your pain, Chet.

RadioStalingrad

He was a clown too!

C_R_Eature

And he was a Clown. Two strikes. Well, three, with all those murders and all.

RadioStalingrad

He was a serial murderer too.

C_R_Eature

We can never forget these things. Thank goodness we have Michele Bachmann to remind us that "… just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa." and she will carry on the tradition: "That's the kind of spirit that I have, too"

I know that I'll sleep better tonight.

DustBowlBlues

Thanks for the meringue tip. And I need to find trampdirt and thank her or him, or them.

And very big thanks for the ricotta recipe. I had no idea.

See? Some of us thought that when a woman bought "our" wonket that the most potty mouthed and funniest political snark anywhere in the internet tubes would also be a recipe exchange.

Barb

Just wait until Sara Benincasa comes back and hosts a quilting bee.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

I'd bee happy to be hosted in a quilt with the scrumplicious Ms. Benincasa.

flamingpdog

HEY, my imaginery girlfriend!!!

OK, you got me back for saying "Hitler" earlier today.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

Dood, somebody had to.

Besides, you just about dumped the delicious Sara for our delightfully hot and sexxxay Editrix.

flamingpdog

Or you could go to Red State and be part of a recipe for disaster exchange.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

About as well, yeah.

Ever see his clown paintings? Pretty bad, but an excellent diagnostic tool. I'd say this guy has some "issues" too.

C_R_Eature

Stop it. you're frightening me.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

Apparently, you can't even say intreegued! No, that's not a typo or a misspelling, it's an oversensitive scriptbot scripted to catch any mention of Toad's youngest child.

And all I did was call you babycakes and ask what could possibly have frightened you!

C_R_Eature

Stop talking about the Clowns. You know how I get.

And no trying to get around the Script Censor, either. It's there for our own protection.

Sassomatic

When you burn the Constitution it turns into shit? Or is that santorum. Must be santorum.

tessiee

"When you burn the Constitution it turns into shit?"

No, when you burn the Constitution, the *country* turns into shit.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

For reasons known only to Mel Brooks, I now have that delightful church scene from Blazing Saddles playing in my head with accompanying song, specifically the line: "Our town is turning into shit."

http://www.udargo.com MaxUdargo

Whatever it is, Evil Obama wants to make sure we notice it.

Evil Obama doesn't sneak up to the Constitution, strike a match and light it, and then quickly dart away, hoping nobody saw him do it. No, Evil Obama grabs the Constitution by the scruff of its preamble, lights it on fire, and then stands there holding the Constitution in your face, staring you straight in the eye while he points at the flames. "Yeah, I did that, mother-fucker. You see what I did? That's your precious Constitution going up in flames right there. Mother-fucker."

Evil Obama doesn't even need a goatee.

Sassomatic

Honey badger don't give a fuck.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

I don't think our Hopey *can* grow a goatee. He seems to have very little face-n-body hair.

memzilla

I'm waiting for the Cthulhu version… again.

CommieLibunatic

I'm tempted to start making one, myself. Except I don't think I have the genius to match the last one.

C_R_Eature

Sorry, Cthulhu eats the Constitution. Or so I've heard. Shhhhhhhh!

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

I just nibbled the edges, a little

C_R_Eature

Not yet! You have to wait until Nyarlathotep gets here. You know this!

I'd like to see him do a lithograph of Sarah Palin's pants on fire, if you know what I mean.

C_R_Eature

That one's hanging in her Gynecologist's office.

Loaded_Pants

That's not a painting. That's a photographic warning to the ladies as to what will happen if they don't take care of their lady-parts.

C_R_Eature

"Don't let this happen to You!"

On the other wall is a photo of the Duggar family and an ad for Lo-Ovral.

dubyatf

OT but do you suppose it's mere coincidence that, in the wake of all the forcible rape by transducer legislation recently passed, that I (who have been looking for a job for almost 2 years, and of course, the interwebs know this) should have received an email solicitation from "ultrasoundtechnicianeducation" inviting me to "learn how to be an ultrasound technician" and encouraging me to "get a glimpse into a new life."? And do you suppose the irony in that last sentence is unintentional?
I will have to investigate whether this program is funded by the socialist government and if so start a petition demanding that my tax dollars not be used for the rapey purposes whatsoever, even if it WOULD positively impact the unemployment numbers. Amiright?

C_R_Eature

Woah! So, all this Pudendal Probing Legislation is merely a Jobs Program in disguise? Who knew! I just assumed it was the end product of the religious fanaticism that's taken over one of our major political parties over the last 25+ years.
I'll bet there's no Government money in this program, if you look. I think it's funded by some nice Churches and Church organizations, like the Westboro Baptist Church and Operation Rescue.

tessiee

Right, because the bible thumpers would never take everyone's tax money to further their agendas.

C_R_Eature

It's all true because, RELIJUS FREEDUMB. It's in the Constitushun. The Man in the Brown Suit said so on Teevee, so it must be true. I just wrote him a nice check out of Junior's College money.

flamingpdog

Oh thanks, Barb, I just had a mental image of Sarah Pee in hot pants.

Oh, never mind, personal responsibility and all that – obviously a product of my own brain damage.

No, no, it's a misspelling. He's a POINTER. See? He's got some strange man in a pitcher POINTING at something.

BarackMyWorld

That terrible German guy….

David Hasselhoff?

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

Hitler could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon, two coats!

tessiee

Thomas Kincade?

bumfug

I always wanted a president with fingers of asbestos-coated steel.

anniegetyerfun

Imagine how fast he could ASL-sign with such things! It'd be a blur!

Loaded_Pants

Then Romney's your 'bot!

tessiee

Or a musician with fingers of steel, for bluegrass guitar, banjo pickin' and such.

user-of-owls

I bet it makes a lot more sense after a mess of pottage.

DustBowlBlues

Do you like the way he drops a reference he thinks shows he's smart?

sullivanst

It's not to show he's smart, it's to rope in the talibangelical rubes. Yes, it really is that easy to do.

http://zvibleindmeis.tumblr.com/ Spurning Beer

If he really were smart, he would discuss the semiotics of political discourse, and refer to a "pot of message."

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

McNaughton is so right about gubbermint intervention. When GOD sends his whirly death funnels to the midwest thousands of souls end up unjustly escaping because of the socialist Weather Service Tornado Warning entitlement program.

AbandonHope

I really want to see a "Whirly Death Funnel Warning" appear on the screen now.

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Is that a warning for funnel cakes at the State Fair?

Gleem McShineys

IF THAT DAMN MICHELE OBAMA GETS HER WAY!

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

Leave my FLOTUS ALOOOOOOONE!!!

Negropolis

If not, they should definitely come with warnings: May make your ass explode.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

Shouldn't that be "ASSplode"? In the interest of, you know, accuracy and shit.

PubOption

He might think that the government was starting to get the message. Illinois has been refused FEMA aid to cover the recent tornado damage.

DustBowlBlues

WTF? The dumb okies who don't believe in the government doing anything but protecting their gun rights have gotten boat loads of tornado damage.

Wilcoxyz

Can't believe Thomas Kinkade didn't beat him to it.

Guppy

Not enough light!!! when your president is blah.

tessiee

Probably because he got stuck on a long line at the 7-11 while trying to buy PBR and the latest issue of "Gigantic Asses".

Maybe, but they generously lease it back to our government for a nominal annual fee.

Nopantsmcgee

Yeah, but can he do it on an Etch a Sketch?

dubyatf

Etch-a-Sketchers do it exclusively with the opposite sex. They're SOOO straight.

flamingpdog

Uh, from the looks of his latest painting, I think he'd be more likely to use a Retch a Sketch.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

You forgot the Dubyuh.

http://wonkette.com/ outragedcitizen

Probably not, but that stage hand from the old "Friends" series could.

Callyson

"Our federal government has been moving in the direction of socialism for over one hundred years"
Roughly coinciding with the rise of the US as a great power…
What was the problem again?

CommieLibunatic

My question is "Why did he wait until a blah person took the presidency to get upset if it's actually taken that long? HEHHHHNGG?"

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Exactement!

Loaded_Pants

Where was the great American artist Jon McNaughton back in 1910?

dubyatf

HEHHHHNGG is my new favorite word! Omg, you are AWESOME. And I mean that in spite of the fact that I just hehhhhngged the mucousy contents of my nasal passages all over my iPad.

mull_man

Taft Libel!!

Slim_Pickins

There is good and bad in everything.

Biel_ze_Bubba

True … some perfectly good paint went into that thing.

Slim_Pickins

McNaughton uses only lead-based paints because its socialist to use lead free.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Can you picture (so to speak) this wingnut being forced to put EPA and CPSC warning stickers on his canvases?

nobodyssweetheart

Bammers is putting his finger right up into the flames and then pulling it away at the last second, going "fffffttt…. hothothothot."

EmileZoloft

No way, he's going Full Liddy on that fire.

http://www.burndownblog.com evan7257

I sure hope the president doesn't hurt his hands from the fire. Fire hot!

anniegetyerfun

Satan isn't bothered by flame; flame is bothered by Satan. Sort of like Chuck Norris.

Wait a sec… has anyone ever seen Chuck Norris and Satan together, in the same place?

Fare la Volpe

One of them's not real, and the other one is Satan.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Well, doh.

Antispandex

Hot damn! (pun intended) I have been wondering what to get the in-laws for Jesus' birthday next year! I hope they don't think he is just trying to get someone to put the fire out. That would totally spoil it!

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

The part about separation of Church and State is crayoned over in that rendition.

“I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, And not to an ideology,
which can never stand, One nation under socialism, divisive, With no liberty or justice for anyone.”
What, no mention of GOD?!? What, is this guy one of those immoral atheists or something?

nounverb911

"One nation under Canada"
–Robin Williams?

Barrelhse

Fucking amateur. He didn't even paint it on velvet- some artist.

freakishlywrong

One nation under clean air,food safey and a highway system, and national parks.

A little pity for the guy, eh? No matter where he goes in the room, Barry's eyes are always following him, following him, following him…

dubyatf

I was going to belittle you for implying that one is to be pitied if Barry's eyes followed one around the room, because I, for one, would be pleased as punch to labor under such a happy delsuion. Then I remembered that the guy in this picture resembles Obama about as much as the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary resembles sanity. So never mind.

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

Yeah! If it wuz BARRY's eyes, every woman in town would be screaming for more. And wetting their knickers, too.

ETA: And quite a few of teh men, too, I should think. (wipes drool)

AbandonHope

In the artist's defense, all o' them blah people look alike AMIRITE?

Monsieur_Grumpe

I will admit it is one of the better black velvet paintings I've seen.

BornInATrailer

Yeah, fairly decent brush technique for being as utterly shitfaced on Black Velvet like McNaughton gets.

JackDempsey1

Did Barack light the Constitution on fire? Because then it could just be an accident, he was smoking, dropped a match, etc.
Or did he just touch it, and it spontaneously combusted?

AbandonHope

Nothing about this painting suggests that Obama started the fire. In fact, Obama looks like he's pointing at the fire with the look of a really pissed-off parent, and saying, "Here, see this? This is fire. Did you do this, George? Did you? Do you have any idea how long this is going to take me to clean up!? That's it, you're grounded. Go to your state and clear brush. And I don't want to see you hanging out with those delinquents Willard, Ricky and Newton ever again.

Barb

Good point, Abandon.
I just read that Mitt gave a shout-out to W, saying Bush saved America from a depression, not Obama.

AbandonHope

Oh, for the love of Benji. There are just no words.

dubyatf

Oh, I've got a word: HEHHHHNGE?!?!

Chichikovovich

Keep going, Mitt! We absolutely want to keep talking about what Bush did and didn't do right up until November. At the convention, make sure you put that abused, humble Christian patriot on prime time to talk about it at length.

The caption should be, 'where the fuck were you when your precious Dubya and his cronies were wiping their asses with this?"

Not sure he has the artistry to paint telling people that had valid disagreements with the Bush regime to "go move to France" in between impotent threats.

UW8316154

Maybe he could just notate it with explanatory comments, like he did with the other ones.

dubyatf

Maybe he could paint Bush holding a container of Freedom Fries in one hand and a bottle of Viagra in the other while Cheney, in the background, dips his pen in the bloodied open leg wound of an American soldier in order to sign the Halliburton contract that made him even more rich? No?

http://www.kalimao.blogspot.com FROTHY

I like this. Better yet, make it a soldier with his head blown apart. God knows we've got a ton of servicemembers with brain damage thanks to that goddamned war.

Fare la Volpe

And those are just the visible scars…

http://www.wonkette.com Chill-A-Sketch

I can certainly see Thomas Kinkade's influence on McNaughton.

OneYieldRegular

I dunno. It sorta has that trademark Thomas Kinkade "Caution – Filling May Be Hot!" lighting aspect.

Use a dab from you tube of cerulean blue in all of the spaces marked "5."

sewollef

Non-snark. Why '5'?

'Cause I have a photograph I took [when on vacation in Charleston] that when I zoomed in on the foreground cobblestones, I can clearly see a number five written on a tiny stone. I had no idea it was there.

Next in the series is a nostalgic piece featuring Hillary Clinton urinating on a bible, future subjects will include Michelle force feeding arrugula to a crying child, and a special portrait of the president paying the forger for his birth certificate. Other series include "Jew Bankers that took us off the gold standard", "Joseph McCarthy walking on water", and a quite popular series: "The Affairs of Martin Luther King", featuring the civil rights leader in compromising vignettes with various heroines of the left. The Artists' early works focused on variations on an Elvis theme with airbrush on imitation velvet.

Chichikovovich

Don't forget a painting of beaten and bloodied George Zimmerman lying prone on the ground and reaching desperately for his gun as wild-eyed, diamond toothed, broken bottle wielding Trayvon Martin descends.

DustBowlBlues

Come on. Do you realize that if Skittles are thrown really hard and one hits you in the eye you could go blind? No wonder the Block Watch captain felt threatened.

tessiee

Shades of the old National Lampoon article about how those crafty Vietcong were plotting against us: "Uses stomach to get stabbed with", "Uses head to get shot with", etc.

OK, except NDAA explicitly didn't do that and the Hamdan ruling was handed down in 2006…

But according to the folks screaming at me, it really says "kill Whitey". I would explain it, but I do not have a chalkboard and mental illness.

Chichikovovich

What has he done that is against the specific document that he's burning? According to Chief Justice Taney, lots of stuff. Against the new, improved version with the post-Civil War amendments? Not so much.

Fare la Volpe

You mean post-War of Northern Aggression, thankyouverymuch.

http://Wonkette.com DemmeFatale

It doesn't matter 'cause, THE PRESIDENT IS A NEGRO!!!!

flamingpdog

But wait, he's only half a Negro. But then, up until they rescinded the law in 1982 (!), in Louisiana, you were legally a Negro if you were genetically 1/16 a Negro. So, let's see … math … Obama is actually a minimum of eight Negros! But then under the Constitution (King Newt UnRevised Version), the 8-Negro President is only 4.8 people, which still makes it crowded at times in the Oval Orifice.

NOTE: I did these mathematicular calcumalations without benefit of a single drop of alcohol. Also with benefit of math.

Toomush_Infer

Math?…are you sure that's not spelled with an "e"?…

tessiee

Well, he's CLANG!
And also, he CLANG!
And then, of course, there's CLANG!

He's blah, is what I mean.

WhatTheHeck

For Jon McNaughton, black is more than a pigment of his imaginatiom. He uses it to whitewash his vision of America.

dadanarchist

This painting: Skullfucking my peeping-holes.

arihaya

did he learn to paint in North Korea?

Fare la Volpe

Why is Robert DeNiro burning that tablecloth?

FakaktaSouth

Oh thank you. That's it. Robert DeNiro and Robert Guillaume had a tablecloth burning baby and this guy painted it. I could not figure out WHO the I-talian I was seeing there was. I was all not Ray Liotta, who does this look like…you nailed it.

BaldarTFlagass

I wish Obama would have that look on his face whenever he addresses Congress or holds a press conference.

NYNYNYjr

I wish Obama would buy this and hang it in the oval office.

Gleem McShineys

I wish he'd point at them, and they'd ignite, like in this painting.

flamingpdog

I just donated 50 Ameros to the Ignited Negro Collage Fund in your name.

Toomush_Infer

"Collage"…Ha!…

tessiee

If he so much as looked at them with that look on his face, they'd wet themselves and run away crying.*

*Except Boner, but only because he's already crying.

SpiderCrab

McNaughton is certainly crazy enough to be a great artist; if he had talent and intelligence he would be the real deal.

BlueStateLibel

Yeah, and you can tell Obama is a real socialist because he HAS NO FLAG PIN. (Also, that doesn't really look Obama, who's much better looking than that.)

GeorgiaBurning

It's the guy from the Allstate commercial, but the ears are a little big

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

That's a mighty big Bible The Beast is burning!!

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Ooo, Scary Anti-Christ Obama and Angry Mormon Jesus should totally have a stare-down!!

Nopantsmcgee

I note the 'artist' does not depict him wearing a bone in his nose and a headdress.

That's a copy of the original constitution, right? The one that said it was A-OK that people with his skin color could be bought and sold as chattel, and even, through the 3/5 clause, gave disproportionate political power to the drivers of men? The one that (according to Chief Justice Taney) precluded people like Obama from even becoming citizens?

Well, no wonder he's burning the thing! The new one is way better.

Tundra Grifter

That's precisely why William Lloyd Garrison, the great abolitionist, burned a copy of the US Constitution before the Civil War.

Chichikovovich

I now understand why the legal principle governing people who are so ga-ga they can't be held responsible for their actions is called the M'naughten rule.

Slim_Pickins

Now Santorum burning the Constitution would be believable.

Fare la Volpe

Women voting? What snobs!

BaldarTFlagass

There's a typo on the watermark at top right, it says "Fine Art" instead of "Shit on Canvas."

Hmmm, going towards horrible 'socialism' for 100 years and it didn't become evident until we had a black President.

Here's a suggestion for McNaughton: paint the Edmund Pettus Bridge as it was on Sunday, March 7, 1965. That's an actual example of 'We the People' demanding the rights the Constitution is supposed to provide.

http://www.southsidejohnny.com/ Jukesgrrl

Oh, you libruls an yer facks.

RadioStalingrad

Looks like it's about 3/5th's burned.

C_R_Eature

George W. Bush looks awfully tan in that painting.

The_Trainman

Don't Re-Paintery
in 2012

AlaskaGrrl

Mmmmmmm, pottage.

tessiee

*Homer drool*
Agggghhhh…

http://whatisawatthedevolution.blogspot.com imissopus

And thanks to the Tea Partiers, there are no firemen to put that out.

C_R_Eature

Well, yes there are. But you have to buy a subscription. Else you're SOL.

flamingpdog

Hey, if Barry had just paid the 75 dollar fire department fee! Or is Michelle in charge of the family finances?

The first version of the painting had the crying Bald Eagle wiping a tear from its eye with a wing.

flamingpdog

Its right wing or its left wing?

Negropolis

Also, this has to be on velvet. Tambien.

rickmaci

Somebody else used inflammatory propaganda "art" to portray the opposition as demonic creatures to be eliminated in the name of the fatherland.

Extemporanus

Sorry, you guys, but it's no longer for sale:

"Dear Mitt & Ann,

May this painting bring you as many minutes of intense simulated enjoyment as it did me.

Fappy Analversary!

Love,
Extemporanus

(p.s. Watch your grip!)"

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

Fappy Analversary!

Dude, you're a genius.

rocktonsam

I don't know much about art, these colors do look awfully warm and rich.

Tundra Grifter

I think McNaughton's work ranks up there with the finest paintings by Rafael, Michelangelo, Leonardo,or Donatello.

Of course, it's hard as heck to paint a decent work of art when you've got stubby little green arms and a giant hardback shell.

Tundra Grifter

There is another way to look at this work of art.

Well, work of Jon.

Mr. Obama is holding the US Constitution left by President George Bush and his minions on January 20, 2008. And our President is not the least bit happy about it.

C_R_Eature

Now, myself I would have painted him in jungle camo BDU's with a Zippo lighter. Kids these days have no sense of history.

tessiee

Not saggy pants, a doo-rag, big sneakers, and fourteen pounds of gold jewelry, using the burning Constitution to light a Kool and/or crack pipe?
Because that's *really* what this is about, right?

C_R_Eature

That Is what it is about, for sure. I can't sustain that level of Racist Fury, though so I'll leave to the experts.

Numbat_Dundee

No more illusory messes of pottage! Real messes of pottage for all!

Chichikovovich

Pottage for some! Miniature American Flags for others!

sullivanst

A mess of pottage in every… well, uh, pot…

HarryButtle

NEEDZ MOAR HAPPY LITTLE TREES!

RadioStalingrad

Don't worry everybody, I have it backed up on a floppy disk.

lochnessmonster

My favorites…the artist statements…Yeesh!

C_R_Eature

Heh. heh. Art.
I think this American Flag Performance Art installation is much moreIronic.

Hip, also.

Loaded_Pants

See what paint by numbers has led to!

NYNYNYjr

Man, the cheapest type is the 210$ giclee on canvas. You can't get this one as a litho? Giclee on canvas is fucking tacky.

To me, it looks like Obama did not light the Constitution on fire, but is merely pointing out that it is on fire, which is a good thing to do.

ElPinche

Comeon libtards, McNaughton had to drive miles away from his gated community to find "urban brown" in oils.

RadioStalingrad

Hey Pinche, a favorite Wonket moment of mine was when you Blingee'd this ass musket's other stupid painting. Hint, hint.

RadioStalingrad

Looks like Obama is "Standing His Ground."

GeorgiaBurning

Once the price gets marked down to $200 ("special offer for *** members") this will be in my crazy aunt's living room.

DustBowlBlues

Why don't these people just move to fucking Somalia if they hate government as much as they claim? The local Fed Ag office employs 3 men who never seem to do anything. To save money, the guv'ment want to close it all but 2 days a week so these idiot rural Republithugs might have to drive an extra 20 or 30 minutes to pick up their federal handouts. Needless to say, the local deficit hawks got their Carharts in twist and passed around petitions to keep the place open 5 days a week.

I hate conservatives and I really hate Republithugs.

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

I live in a rural part of a rural state, and I can think of no bigger Welfare Queens than farmers.

http://www.southsidejohnny.com/ Jukesgrrl

And these "public servants" will claim that the government does nothing for them.

elfgoldsackring

"It was like that when I got here."

voodooeconomics

I don't think Obama started the fire. He picked up a copy of the Constitution, already on fire, and he just said: "Who the fuck started this shit?" You can tell he has this stern, pissed off looks about it.

Monsieur_Grumpe

Probably the greatest example of a talent used for evil purposes since Leroy Neiman.

sullivanst

Or at least, it would be, if there was any talent involved…

Lionel[redacted]Esq

Colonel von Horst: [reporting on Nick's interrogation] They're still working on him. He won't break. We've tried everything! Do you want me to bring out the Leroy Nieman paintings?

General Streck, German High Command: No. We cannot risk violating the Geneva Convention!

I hadn't seen it before. It's awesome. It's got lots of metaphors all over it. I love this guy.

elfgoldsackring

"Those who are familiar with my work know I like to use symbolism and metaphor to engage the viewer."

Like a toddler who draws every house with one window and a smoking chimney?

Fukui-sanYesOta

Look, it's got chains! That's deep, man.

Also a chicken for some reason.

Chichikovovich

According to his helpful annotations, that's a rooster, because something, something Peter denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed something something.

I have to hand it to M'Naughton for this whole "hammer the metaphors home" thing. Primo idea. Van Gogh didn't have the internet and pointers, or otherwise he would have posted a .jpg of "Cornfield with Crows", and if you put the pointer over the road it would say "This road ends partway through the cornfield because it is life" and on the crows "I chose crows because they make people think of death. And also of that Poe guy who talks about death all the time."
The whole artistic experience would be way better with something like that.

Also I've always thought the duck rabbit picture would be better if somebody had drawn some tiny webbed feet and feathers, make it a bit clearer what it is.

Fukui-sanYesOta

It's only art if you have to explain the already painfully obvious allegorical meaning in your daubs.

As Mondrian said: "It's a load of fucking lines and colours and that, innit"

MilwaukeeKent

The chicken's the only one not in chains, besides the Prez. I think McNaughton is advocating free-range chickens, probably as one of the "six keys" (to free us from debt) symbolically hidden in the painting.

Buzz Feedback

Why is Clint Dempsey holding that burning piece of paper?

Negropolis

Team USA Libel!

EmileZoloft

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

Guppy

Pfft, it's just Article I. What has Congress ever done for us anyway?

C_R_Eature

I hate to pick nits here but on that watermark, shouldn't the Fine be in quotation marks? Or, perhaps the "Art".
Both?

Fukui-sanYesOta

"Canvas-based vomitarium"

C_R_Eature

That's good. there was a guy somewhere who made "Art" on a huge canvas on the floor by giving himself numerous colorful paint enemas.
We're in the same class here.

JustPixelz

I don't know much about art, but I know what I don;'t like.

fuflans

how many honest hard-earned ameros were spent on art by this american patriot?

"I keep hearing the president say he's responsible for keeping the country out of a Great Depression," Romney said at a town hall in Arbutus, Maryland. "No, no, no, that was President George W. Bush and [then-Treasury Secretary] Hank Paulson."

I forget, whose policies caused that horrendous economic skullfuck in the first place?

It might be that guy who's image is Red-shifted from moving so rapidly down the Memory Hole. I think that his brother may have endorsed Our Wealthy Mr. Malprop, though, so it's not all forgotten.

Negropolis

Honestly, that blows my mind. He can not be serious. Even most Republicans don't honestly believe that shit.

http://whatisawatthedevolution.blogspot.com imissopus

Bill Clinton, of course.

NYNYNYjr

That must be Clinton…who had good economy during his term because of Bush I.

arihaya

Bill Clinton, ask any wingnut

his getting blowed under the desk also caused 9.11

clblabin

My favorite thing: the watermark claiming that this is "fine art."

Abernathy

How else would you know?

Fare la Volpe

I can't upfist this enough.

Sassomatic

Anything that has a sign on it saying it is "fine art" is not. Sort of the same thing is the guy/girl you meet at the bar who says, in the first 10 minutes "I'm not crazy."

cheetojeebus

I'm sorry what was this thread about? I was distracted by Christina Hendricks in the little ad to the right. Was it something about a picture? art? can't remember the image? Oh, Hey, did you see the Van Gogh show in Philly? That one of rain in a field……

NYNYNYjr

I don't have the Christina Hendricks ad :( Just the usual animal cruelty dreck.

Fare la Volpe

PETA doesn't even have the poor taste to leave you guys tons of woman-objectifying softcore porn anymore. Those bastards.

knitpoleon

Wow, for a moment I thought I was on Regretsy.

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

I feel like this painting is a metaphor for something, but it's just too vague.

BlueStateLibel

Actually, the more accurate interpretation is that Obama is symbolically burning the hopes and dreams of Mitt Rmoney to become president. Well done, Obama.

NYNYNYjr

No, he's burning his real super-long-form Kenyan birth certificate.

Abernathy

You can tell this was painted for teabaggers–even in their fantasy world, Obama has to helpfully point out the obvious.

iburl

Its funny, because it's true!

littlebigdaddy

Coming soon to a pedo-van near you!

http://hong-kong-actresses.blogspot.com/ donner_froh

Screw the painting. How much for that impossible in three dimensions half round table it is hanging over on his web page.

swordfis

It says in the upper right hand corner, "McNaughton Fine Art." It's a good thing this artwork is labelled, because I almost mistook it for a vulgar, fascist, hate-mongering cartoon. I guess "house painter" didn't work out as planned.

IceCreamEmpress

You know who else was a

OH FUCK TOO EASY

IceCreamEmpress

Thank God for your headline, because I was wondering why a young Robert Guillaume was descrating historic documents.

spends2much

If the march towards Socialism has been happening for 100 years, can I order a painting with Saint Ronnie burning the Constitution? I'm guessing no…

MilwaukeeKent

Need laser eyes, maybe goo-goo eyes that seem to follow you around the room.

Lionel[redacted]Esq

Please, Obama's black, the Constitution is on Hemp. Like he is going to torch that and not take a drag!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30500320@N06/ DerrickWildcat

This cutting edge painting provides the ground floor to understanding the Language of Hyperspace which is the Original Language of the God-Mind consisting of Color, Tone, and Archetype. This image of Hyperspace is the interspecies and inter-universal language used by all beings..

jtalaska

When you are visiting with a new friend nothing says “get out of this house as fast as you can even if you have to squeeze out the cat flap” as a Jon McNaughton hanging in the foyer.

fitley

If I could get Dana Loesch to piss on the fire, the value of the print would triple overnight. Art investors take note. This can only increase in value.

tessiee

"McNaughton has provided an actual Answer Sheet to explain the painting."

Because a painting of a scowling Obama, *burning the Constitution*, while *pointing* to the burning part ("See? It's burning!") isn't self-explanatory enough for…
his target audience…
and-uh…
OK, then.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30500320@N06/ DerrickWildcat

I think the description was very helpful. It's like when the paper or the news station shows a picture of a cat when they have some kind of a story about a cat thing for people that not be familiar with what a cat looks like.

tessiee

Hence your avatar.

Chichikovovich

That's very true. And also it's very thoughtful toward the people who don't know how to read, to let them know that it's a story about a cat.

C_R_Eature

To be fair, that Sheet goes perfectly with the Sheet he likes to wear with his friends on the weekends.

MagnoliaGrl

Why $345? what's magic about the 45?

Barrelhse

If I did a painting that looked like this one I would NOT consider myself "good" as an artist. The clumsy style reminds me of every painting ever displayed in the annual Adult Continuing Education Art Show at the Town Library.

NYNYNYjr

it's not good art, it's "fine" art

commiegirl

Guys, have you had a shitload of totally unobjectionable comments get deleted from this thread?

RadioStalingrad

No, your highness, but is there any way you could reinstate my home IP address?

http://gawker.com Jim Newell

Didn't I do that already?

RadioStalingrad

No, it's a pain in the ass for me as I have to run off my tether or work IP. Thanks for noticing though. I suppose I have been whining (hehe) about it, but maybe you will perfect your banhammer process.

http://gawker.com Jim Newell

Write a comment from your banned IP so I know which one to unblock.

http://wonkette.com Jim Newell

Now try!

RadioStalingrad

I'm in, I'm more excited than a teabagger at a Palin rally.
BTW, would you like a 4-5 sentence recap of what went down that night, or let's let bygones be bygones?
Either way, you the man!

Extemporanus

The snark of the moral universe is long, but it bans toward justice.

(Welcome back, home slice!)

RadioStalingrad

In tonight's anal wink blot I see Jim Newell as a muscular Jesus welcoming his flock home.

Extemporanus

Bull.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30500320@N06/ DerrickWildcat

YES!
no?
Oh, I don't know how to answer this one.

Extemporanus

Our p-ness is no longer the same size. :-(

RadioStalingrad

it's not the size of the "p" ness, it's the amount of snark magic in it.

Extemporanus

"Watch me pull a p-ness out of my ass!"

RadioStalingrad

Watch me pull a "p" ness out of my asshat.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30500320@N06/ DerrickWildcat

I don't mind. You give me something to shoot for.

Extemporanus

Careful of the hair, please. I just got it back from the cleaners.

http://ifthethunderdontgetya.blogspot.com/ ifthethunderdontgetya

YES!

I had the most awesome, funniest comment in the history of the internets deleted!!???

*pitiful sob*

Could you put it back, dear commiegirl? (Whatever it was.)
~

http://gawker.com Jim Newell

What was deleted?

http://gawker.com Jim Newell

Oh I see them. There must be some tripwire buzzword thing!

Man0nTheStreet

What are those "tripwire buzzwords" – just wondering, for….ah… research!

C_R_Eature

No and all my Objectionable comments are still here. Just lucky, I guess?

rocktonsam

unobjectionable in what regard Charlie?

el_donaldo

yes. I'll take 5 p please.

el_donaldo

BTW, I've noticed that comments I make that include a word that includes HE WHOSE NAME MUST NOT BE SPOKEN, like for instance the thingy on a gun that you'd have to squeeze to make the explosion that adds a few letters to HE WHOSE NAME MUST NOT BE SPOKEN, are auto-deleted.

Oh great, now I don't know if I have to go back and look for more comments that have been restored, or were they all restored between the time Newell found them and the time I got here to page 3. Do they still have Evelyn Wood speed-reading courses?

RadioStalingrad

Again, word to the wise: Don't Whine.

flamingpdog

McNaughton produces fine art; I produce fine whine.

Sassomatic

Sometimes, when I'm having a really good day, I try to think up shit I could say that would get me banhammered from My Wonkette forever with no warning. A Wonkette Suicicide Fantasy, if you will. So if you come up with something really, really objectionable, for here, I'd love to here it, you know, for my files.

everleighway

He's not wrong. We have become more socialist, because as a community we agree that there are some things we will not do. We will not see chlldren starve, veterans die in the streets, generations of uneducated children.

It is also true that the encroachment on our civil liberties and privacy and a host of other things is constant and we get it from all sides.

But, it's pretty damn stunty of him to use President Obama in this manner and incrediably infammatory and irresponsible and a very very disingenous and dishonest portrayal. President Obama is hardly the worst offender. All administrations and all legislative branches and all governments in all the lands since the beginning of time do this.

C_R_Eature

What this country really needs is a great Art Critic. Where's Jesse Helms when we need him?

I am surprised he didn't paint him lighting it with a burning bible while standing on flag. McNaughton is clearly going soft.

el_donaldo

And lazy. Where are the two dozen broadly allegorical figures of urban/intellectual/black/Jew/female Evil lined up behind him slapping him in the back while the two dozen broadly allegorical figures of Teabaggers/priests/boy scouts/bewigged former presidents kneel before him in abject horror?

I think you are being overly optimistic and assuming this cretin has a talent for anything.

ttommyunger

Yer prolly right.

flamingpdog

I might actually pay $345 for a nice painting of a blowjob.

ttommyunger

However, here in Atlanta, in some neighborhoods, that would buy nearly 70 actual blowjobs. Hookers are people too, my friend…

Fare la Volpe

Magical, wonderful people.

ttommyunger

Yes….yes they are.

DocChaos

Obama had to burn the constitution after the right wingers had wiped their asses with it.

Negropolis

McNaughty,

This is one nation under money, and don't you fuckin' forget it. We were sold down the river by your extremist capitalist kind generations ago. You keep shilling for Mammon and see where your False Jesus finds you.

November can not come soon enough. I tell you, this ideology is working my very last nerve…

RadioStalingrad

Wait, but doesn't the Constitution say we are a capitalist nation — and socialisms like the military-industial complex are bad? To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States (the wingnuts always seem to forget the "general Welfare" part).

Negropolis

OT: Welcome back (in full).

RadioStalingrad

Fist bump.
♪ ♫ Our overlord is a forgiving overlord. ♪ ♫

flamingpdog

They don't forget, they just think he's a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Teabaggers *wish* it was Potent enough or Important enough to rise to the level of Treason; however, it's just a different media-format of the same-ol' scrawled, illogical end-of-america-communist-UN-negros-are-coming-to-kill-us paranoid mutterings/leaflets of nutjob street-preachers.

MadBrahms

This is the first in a series. In the paintings to follow, Obama will burn the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the Bible, and of course The Birth Certificate.

Aridzona

Can't wait until it's available as a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Those are great for whiling away the hours.

If there is an election! You forget that he has us under Martial Law right now, which postpones any and all elections indefinitely. Executive Orders do not get ratified by Congress; in fact Congress has no say one way or the other. So technically he has already bypassed the elective process. Be warned, America, we are seeing the beginning of the Communist reign of terror. Make no mistake about it.

Stay armed and ready… Lets hope our Military and Police forces love the free America more than taken orders form a dictator/ Marxist!!!!

C_R_Eature

there are UN troops stationed throughout the US and they will be the ones as well as his "civilian army".

Awshit, Doc..they're onto us! Now we'll have to move up the timeline. Those camps are nowhere near ready – not all of the Immobilization and Reeducation Theaters have fully tested brainwave generators. Ah, well, you go to war with the camps you have, not the ones you wish you have…

Fare la Volpe

I'm especially intimidated by the fellow with a Kristen Stewart avatar.

"Look bastards, THIS is what happened when you elected a Texas village idiot as president you chump."

Man0nTheStreet

I just remembered that I know a 94 year-old Faux-watcher who passes her time with paint-by-numbers things that she then proudly displays to guests…. she'd lurve THIS piece o' crap! Does McNaughton sell paint-by-number sets, or is that too challenging and sophisticated for his intended audience?

That's just Day 1 of Constitution Law 101 at Univ. of Chicago Law School. By the end of the semester there is flag burning, sharia-compliant lesson plans and mandatory student participation in Hezbollah rallies.

Toomush_Infer

Looked at this piece of shit again: Is he really saying: "Who's the N*****r now, white boy?….'cause it looks like it…

Jerri

What I like best about this artist is his subtlety. Really makes the viewer think, you know?

elburritodeluxe

Thank God its still just burning the boring parts down the bottom. Quick, put it out before it gets to 'promote the general welfare'!

The_Trainman

Remember the make-believe art schools that used to advertise on match book covers "If you can draw this this you can become an artist!"

Dürers Rhino

If he really wanted to make Obama look threatening, he should have put him in a hoodie.

jdoleman

I didn't know Obama had a laser finger.

Rayn_And

Waiting patiently for Elvis At The Last Supper on black velvet

stanpan

I think I see what's going on here. Bush decided to prank Obama, fashioned a sack out of the Constitution, filled it with Bo dung, and lit it on fire on the White House doorstep. Obama is all scowly as he hears Bush's muffled giggles off in the dark.

Nesnora

I take it as: "Really? Really? You fuckshits set the constitution on fire with the Patriot Act and now you want me to stand here and put it out while blaming me for setting it on fire in the first place?! And I'M the asshole…"

notreelyhelping

Sure, it's art. But it's no Mallard Fillmore.

http://yakkingmelmoth.blogspot.com/ portermelmoth

President B. H. Obama DID NOT START THAT FIRE. He is simply being presidential in solemnly showing that indeed, the document he holds (which I think is only the Preamble) is aflame, and WILL SOMEONE NOT HELP HIM before his fingers are fried? Somebody, please, HELP HIM!

But it’s not really that big a deal. After all, Moses busted up the 10 Commandments. From God hisself. We can get another copy, people.

barto

Did ya notice Rick's holdin' that bible the same way Nobama's holdin' the burning constiturion in the McNaughty fin art? Burn, bible, burn!